Determining your true passions can become a hair-pulling exercise, especially if you tend to analyse your passions before you are totally clear about what they are. You know you are analyzing when you catch yourself thinking one passion on your list is much better than another passion further down the page.
Seven Rules for Determining Your True Life Passions
- Drop into your heart. Let go of trying to figure it out. Logic will get in the way of finding your true life passions.
- Keep yourself open to what your heart is yearning for you to do or accomplish. Did you always want to learn to play the guitar? Is it still something you want to do? So, what's stopping you?
- Trust your first choices. They are almost always right for you. Your intuition has a strong connection to what your heart truly desires. Choosing what matters most to you means listening to your heart and allowing yourself to follow through by taking the needed action steps.
- Imagine yourself as a 10 year-old child again. What did your heart dream for you to be or do? Did you completely ignore what was so powerful a desire back then and forget your dreams?
- List 3-5 things you truly love to do. Do any of them fall into the "Passion" category? You can check this by asking yourself, "Would I do any of them now for free?"
- Ask people you totally trust to tell you what you are good at doing and/or being. Ask them to tell you what you have done or said that they found most authentic about you.
- As you list your 10-15 most important passions, ask yourself, "How does it feel to live this passion? Does living it cause you to feel "on fire"?
Thinking that what you put your attention on needs to be logical and sequential in order for you to accomplish what you desire is not necessary. Often a life-changing chance encounter happens only when you step outside your normal routine.
Intuition is listening to what your heart knows and feels and then following what your heart is asking you to do. You can easily get caught in your mind and talk yourself out of following the golden thread of your intuition.
Your passions come from your heart, not your mind. By using the above suggestions, you are allowing yourself to become vulnerable to the real you, your heart. Are you ready to love yourself enough to explore what you really, really want to do with your life?
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From Virginia Fischer, The Passion Test Coach
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